A Mediterranean valley : landscape archaeology and Annales history in the Biferno Valley

Approaches to Mediterranean landscape history the Biferno Valley - the modern landscape the Biferno Valley survey - methodologies the natural landscape and its evolution early prehistoric settlement the first agricultural communities the settlement expansion of the second millennium BC Iron Age chiefdoms (c. 1000-500 BC) Pentri, Frentani and the beginnings of urbanization (c. 500-80 BC) Roman towns and territories (c.80 BC-AD 600) the evolution of hilltop villages (AD 600-1500) feudalism and the "Southern Question" (AD 1500 to the present) retrospect - the evolution of a Mediterranean landscape.